Re: Another British term

[acg@hermes.dlogics.com]

jeb@mtqua.att.com (Jim Beckman) writes:
>   linish = grind
>   grub screw = leadless Allen bolt

Uh, that should be "headless" bolt, right? "linish" has me baffled...

>   swarf = metal filings and crud
>
> Anybody else ever hear this one?

Yes! Yes! This was classic Engineering Department slang for the debris
piled up by machining of metal. It also reminds me of "bollocksed up",
also rendered as "bollixed up" in a sort of more-polite spelling; this
is what a Previous Owner did to your car.

-- Andy